Its like those American videos were an employee just walks in one day and says "I quit" and walks out expecting their pay :D.

On the other hand if you Google "new movie studios UK" there are loads of them opening up. I asked a question why this was and an American said it was probably because American studios are highly unionised but not in the UK.

@@lewisner The UK has pretty good tax breaks for many of the creative arts industries, that's probably one of the main reasons. Movies, TV shows, theatre, video games, museums and art galleries, animation, orchestras etc.

@Paladestar oh that's interesting thanks.

@@paladestar9758 Ireland's good, I think. Don't they not tax creative earnings, or something?

Cheesy Curly Fries.... OMG 😯 My favourite.

And wedges!

Not to mention fritters and croquettes...

@@paulharvey9149 Croquettes only with thick gravy. Yum!

And now, I'm hungry.

They also omit the cost of living as in groceries are 100% higher than US!

you forgot to mention, steak cut which are HUGE, crinkle cut, curly, waffle, skin and you mentioned wedges in passing but americans still call wedges fries.

A lot of the food in America is illegal over here due to additives and stuff in it. Even something like McDonalds fries. Here its potatoes, salt and the oil its cooked in. Over in America it has colourings, flavourings, dexterose. 3 or 4 types of oil some of them very fattening. Even just "wonderbread" over there is full of sugar. This is why Americans don't like the taste of our food. It isn't pumped full of sugar and flavours/colours.

I've never been to the states, but I think I've heard that eating out is way more expensive in the UK. Is that right?

@@st0rmforce The staff in the UK get a wage from the cost of your meal.

I think so too mate, more uk than USA.

​@@micade2518American people are some of the most obese people in the world lmao.

@@micade2518I hope this isn’t an American saying this since the USA are obese kings of the world

@@micade2518 cool that’s fair enough then.

You are us.

Yeah, that picture of the bread and chips with tomato sauce seemed to be lacking the butter on the bread.

Garlic butter is even better

Oh mate yes 💪💪

Or chili butter

Actually, it's the carbs that are fattening. Fat doesn't teleport from your gut to your thighs. Body fat is produced when there's an abundance of easily accessible carbs in your diet, which only happens naturally at harvest season when winter is coming. We've not universally evolved to digest lactose as adults, so we're definitely not evolved to have all fruits available all year round.

The Earth pin also needs to be longer. To open shutters to allow the power pins on the plug to enter the socket.

@@grahamsmith9541 Anyone born before 1960 can remember the old massive round pin 15 amp plugs (three sizes of them 15 - 10 and 5 amp each needing their own socket) and may have survived shoving a finger as a toddler or a rugrat into a socket. The 5 amp still available and used only for lighting circuits.

@@tonys1636 I can remember those. And the ones that plugged into a light socket like a lightbulb. I can remember my mother doing that with the iron.

As others have said there are so many safety features with UK , and now I understand Australian, plugs. In addition to those mentioned there are others E.g every plug has a separate fuse, the live and neutral have a plastic sleeve so children can’t accidentally put something across if the contacts are exposed, most outlets in modern homes have a switch to turn on that outlet. So Tyler, you are risking death ever time you plug in, in the USA. There are lots of KZfaq videos regarding the difference between plugs.

@@johnnyuk3365 Actually, there are 3 prong plugs in the US, just not all plugs!

They're triple cooked chips, not triple fried. The first 'cook' is parboiled the cut chip for a few minutes. It's then chilled, then lightly fried to get a shell without colour. It's then chilled a second time before frying it the second time. This colours the shell, and leaves a fluffy centre. Sprinkle some sea salt on, whether Maldon or Blackthorn.

Actually they’re not the American style… they’re the French style as is French fries as in France the country in the name before French fries as in French style not American fries. Thanks.

Aren’t French fries made from mashed potato forced through a ‘shaping ‘machine whereas chips are from peeled and chopped potatoes

No, whole potatoes are put through a machine that cuts them into their shapes. In many places the big fries are called steak fries in the U,S.@@annstuart7076

Makes you wonder what Brits ate before potatoes were discovered in America.

i dont like butter on bread

I bought a cheese sandwich on a recent train journey - I didn’t think to ask if it came with butter or marge - it came with neither - cheese on dry bread! Most sandwiches often are served on dry bread these days! I ordered what was described as a “chip butty” at a dog racing track - my brother and I went out to watch some dog racing - what I was presented with was chips in dry bread! I said to the woman that she forgot to put butter on it - “Oh, we don’t put butter on ‘em, luv!”. I told her that a butty has butter on it - either put butter on it - butter - none of your marge - or stop calling it a chip butty! How is chips in dry bread a chip butty? She put Lurpak on it in the end! Marge, for the uninitiated, is an inadequate understudy for butter - especially those cheap brands!

You'll hit a point where butter turns to olive oil further you go south. It was to do with temperature of the country and butter being a big fan of melting.

Chip cob you mean 😂

I hate butter on my sandwiches. But I did that to myself. Making a colossal multi-layered sandwich with butter on every surface made for the most disgusting sandwich I ever had. From that point on, I stopped using it unless it was going to melt (bacon rolls, toast, in cooking etc) Instead, I just make sure any sandwich I make has something moist on it. Cheese and pickle, ham, mustard and mayo etc etc.

I actually thought she was going to go into that, and that it wouldn't just be "it's harder for them to come out!" but year, he should certainly do a reaction on the design of the UK plug.

There is a KZfaq video on this... a US sparky explaining the difference and superiority of British plugs. Very quick search. He misses some bits out but... it is there.

UK electric plugs have a built in earth cable. We work on a different voltage so it’s also a safety feature.

Enjoyed thank you yes chips fries sandwich but ever more lovkey a crisp sandwich cheese n onion too mention one yum yum crisps or potato chips I believe Americans call it yea bag potato chips cridps 2 slices buttered white bread yum yum.

Watch ElectroBoom's trip to the UK. Worth it :D

And no tipping in resturants or bars.

She did

@@TonySpike in that case I missed it - sorry!

@@debbiemohekey1509 but you should tip your barber if they give you a decent trim

@@OnlyGrafting Only in America but a barber in Australia would be earning around $30 ph. They get paid enough and all their trims should be decent. They don't have to rely on tips to make up their wages and no one has to grovel to get a bit of extra money.

I live in UK (british) all my life , and I'm 51 . Lived in my parents house which was new in 1964/5 , we have not had any work done to our roof ... I do like Thatched Roofs in UK Have u tried a Crisp Sandwich too ???

The UK has the best sketch comedy in the world but when it comes to stand up, that is an American invention. The British didn't allow improvisation which is where the term "working blue" comes from. Don't get me wrong . The UK has good stand up and America has good sketch comedy but you are right. It's what you prefer. A simple matter of taste. Also, I build using wattle and daub. But then again, I'm not a typical American like this guy . Hint: there is no such thing as a typical American.

Wow

You must have a great employer! Whilst i have lived in the UK all my life and have had Lupus for 25 yrs... Know i can't work an office job anymore as the shitty open plan air con means that within a week i am suffering from a chest infection!!! Without fail!!

@@sandiband9236 sorry to hear that. I have fibro and retired early from the military because I can't work. If I didn't have VHA I would be homeless because of all the healthcare costs. Not enough of American government care so they vote against universal healthcare...people die all the time here from small things because they cannot afford it or become homeless because they can't do it all with the pitiful wages. No matter how bad it is there, don't complain, it could be worse...you could be an America 👍

@@blessedveteran oh i am not complaining at all about our health care system!! Yes its not perfect... But at least I don't need to bankrupt myself for my physically necessary treatment! Tbh i have been on 10+ medications a month for 19 years!! If i lived in USA i would be dead by now as i can't afford to live. Xxx

I had a similar thing happen to me and was sick for over 5 months. I got full pay off my employer for the full period I was off. I was also phased back into work.

With either gravy or curry lol

@@peterrogers7800 I prefer mine plain but with tons of butter!

@@sarahtrew3314 I like it that way also from time to time lol

With a pickled egg.

If you are employed and pregnant in the UK you are entitled to 52 weeks (1 year) of maternity leave, no matter how long you've worked for your employer. This is made up of 26 weeks of ordinary maternity leave and 26 weeks of additional maternity leave. You have a range of rights during this period and can also request that your employer provides flexible working arrangements if you decide to return to work at the end of your leave. Employment terms (for example, your pension contributions) are protected while on Statutory Maternity Leave. Also if you're made redundant while on Statutory Maternity Leave, you also have extra rights. Someone on maternity leave will of course continue to build up holiday time and they will get the same pay rises as other staff. Fathers also get at least a week of Statutory Paternity Leave and pay. There is also Statutory Adoption Leave is 52 weeks. This consists of: 26 weeks of Ordinary Adoption Leave 26 weeks of Additional Adoption Leave Only 1 person in a couple can take adoption leave.

the "safety prong" is properly called the earth pin.....

There are a lot of countries that don’t know what a kettle is.

@@Madders23 I think you'll find a majority of the world knows what a kettle is

@@sampeeps3371 I never said a majority don’t know what a kettle is. I’m an Airbnb host and get people from all over the world pointing to the kettle asking what it does.

@@Madders23 not something id admit to being in the UK xD people don't like airbnb here because they buy up properties for people who are struggling to even get onto the property ladder.

You are easily shocked. When I was young my American family had a kettle, but that was a time when hot water was needed to make instant coffee, instant oatmeal, instant noodles. For 75 years the microwave is used for "instant" products.

Part of this is also due to UK using a higher voltage (230 vs 110), which means more safety measures are needed but also meaning that it is easier to deliver higher amounts of power to devices... electric kettles aren't as common in the US since that lower voltage would take more energy and time to heat the water. The UK Plug (BS 1363) is actually one of the most used plugs in the world, it is used in most of the middle-east, parts of Asia and Africa too. It is definitely the safest but it is worse then lego to accidentally step on one.

@@DoomsdayR3sistance Agree that they are worse than lego to step on 🤣 Are they really the most used plug in the world? All of North America and almost all of Europe use 2-pin plugs.

@@AdrianWright6363 "one of", not the most. it'll probably be either Type A or Type C that is most used. The BS 1363 is also called Type G.

Many other countries use the United Kingdom Type G plug: Bahrain Bangladesh Belize Bhutan Botswana Brunei Darussalam Cambodia Cyprus Dominica Falkland Island's Gambia Ghana Gibraltar Grenada Guyana Hong Kong Iraq Ireland Isle of Man Jordan Kenya Kuwait Lebanon Macau Malawi Malaysia Maldives Malta Mauritius Myanmar Nigeria Oman Pakistan Qatar Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia SaintVincent and the Grenadines Saudi Arabia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Solomon Islands Sri Lanka Tanzania Uganda United Arab Emirates Vanuatu Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe This UK plug, designated by its standard BS1363 was developed in the late 1940s - by a committee charged with safety above all other considerations. The blades are very thick so they can’t be easily bent, their upper part of the live blades are clad in insulation so that a partially inserted blade has no exposed metal. The socket has keyed shutters to prevent insertion of non-plugs that do not engage the ground pin first. The plug body is designed to contain a mandatory fuse and the cable entry is at right angles to the socket, preventing people from yanking the plug out by the cord, thus having to extract it using the sturdy body itself. UK sockets have a strict orientation convention and the right angle exit cable is always downward lessening the chances of tripping. The US NEMA 5-15P plug is of a design that goes back to the earliest days of electrical power distribution where cheap and simple was the rule, probably the 1880s. The prongs can be bent. The blades of a partially inserted plug can be touched by skinny fingers. there is no integral fuse and the in-line design of the cord encourages unplugging by pulling the cord. But at least its cheap.

What fool takes a mains radio into the bathroom?

Our chips have the texture of mashed potato inside and are healthier, French fries are thinner and absorb more fat

I believe the nearest the US has to our chips are what from memory they call Steak chips/fries

Correct but in America we call thicker fries still fries. Thicker fries are sometimes called steak fries. If they are really thick we call them Jojo's.

@@stuartfaulds1580 In the US we have thicker fries, we have places that serve fish and chips. You are right thicker fries are times called steak fries. If they are thicker they are called Jojo's.

They’re not really French. They’re just fries. Sometimes I call them ‘American fries’. And fries are as much like chips as onion rings are like fried onions. Other comments: Roof tiles; they are good, solid roofing that should last for decades. Sick leave; if you are sick, you need an appropriate amount of time to recover and be back to your best at work. You shouldn’t be punished/fined/limited if you don’t recover quickly enough, ffs!

Just got a new Welsh Slate roof and was told it could last up to 400 years

@@donnakantaris2287 Annoying isn't it! a roof that out lives us haha

@donnakantaris2287 I'm a roofer and Welsh slate ( done right ) is the best kind of roof you can get, in my opinion!

I live in Saddleworth, some old houses have York Stone for roofing.

I think most modern roof tiles are made from concrete. My current house has a slate roof using recycled tiles from the building that previously occupied the site. The outer walls are made from recycled stone, originally from a local quarry.

Shingles as used in USA would only be used on a shed!!!

I've been in my current house for 20 years - and my neighbours opposite have been here 40 years 'from new'. Apart from some minor 'edge' work on the timber, we just don't think about re-roofing. Now double glazing and poorly installed initial doors & windows is different!

I think the big difference is probably due to what the rest of the house is made out of and the foundations. In the UK we have deep concrete foundations, solid brick walls both inside and out and that can support a solid roof with decent tiles which would last a hundred years.

There are many houses and buildings in Britain that are over 200 years old that still have the original tiles on the roof! If the house/building is solid, and the materials are of a good quality, then there's no reason to doubt that they'll last for a few centuries! Where I live Suffolk (UK), many of there houses I pass on my way to work are 400+ years old; if they have a thatched roof, then that will have been replaced a few times, but solid tiles on the roof? They may be as old as the house!

My house was built in 1971 and the roof is just fine.

I wonder if this is how I ended up with 2 extra days holiday when I returned to work after having covid. I had booked 2 days off during the Feb half term (FE colleges don't get the same school holidays) but I tested positive the Sunday before. I was confused when my head of department told me that I had unbooked holiday entitlement, as I knew that I had booked it all. This could explain it. I've never worked anywhere that did this before, so I didn't even know it was a thing!

My TV and laptop is plugged into a grounded extentsion cord, if I am not home during an thunder storm or the power goes out, the tv and laptop is protected from an energy surge when the power comes back on and BTW, I'm from the US.

I've travelled a lot and never noticed that - nice one!

Also some UK plugs have two holes in the back so American (or European) two pin plugs can be inserted. Men's shavers also use them.

@@marydavis5234 here you practice something called turning the plug off by flipping the switch before leaving the house. In a thunderstorm you typically turn off all plugs just in case but most of the time you can chance it and nothing happens. Also the mains supply here is used to surges, the British mains gets demand surges often simply by mass use - the most well known being people taking a break during TV advertisements to put the kettle on.

Europe also uses a 2-pin plug as their default but uses the same voltage as the UK (~230). So it's not the grounding that affects this; the US does actually have a three pin plug which is grounded but the safety aspect... nothing comes close to the UK 3-pin design, it is fused, grounded, has sheathed pins, shuttered sockets and a few other design considerations that other plug designs just don't have. The shuttering and fuses are the main part tho, since even in none-grounded devices there is a plastic pin used (to indicate it isn't grounded) since the shutters won't open without it to let in the live and neutral pins.

@@DoomsdayR3sistance Thanks for adding the extra details, I’m guessing you have more than my memories of school GCSEs in terms of knowledge in this field.

@@susanpearson-creativefibro oh GCSEs, now those were a long time ago! But yes, I work with servers (in datacenters) and have done some electrical engineering as part of that in the past. When you have to deal with servers in datacenters, electrical safety is definitely important.

@@DoomsdayR3sistance And that is why the UK style plug/sockets are the Best! Don't forget the switched socket and that the plug fuse is sized to protect the appliances cable.

America used to have kettles before the Microwave. Only a Brit would still use Grandma's kettle.

Yer but they could use slate

My husband spent a lot of time in the US for work. He was chatting to a man he was working with about their respective houses. The American was talking about his old house and my husband was imagining a cutesy cottage. My husband told him about our modern house - turns out both houses were built about the same time!

-> is living in a 240-year-old stone house in Northern Scotland.

We also don't have termites or other bugs which require periodic house fumigation.

I visited my sister in Pennsylvania about 30 years ago (she's back in the UK now) and I was shocked by the poor quality of the materials used. I don't mean the poor quality of the actual materials, which was good quality in itself, but by the flimsy materials utilized. For instance, the roof covering wasn't proper tiles or slate with sheet lead weathering but heavy duty mineral felt cut into strips and then cut to form 'shingle style' shapes within the strips. The doors and windows were made from flimsy plastic or aluminium and I'm not sure but the glass may have been acrylic sheet. There didn't appear to be any brick walls but brick pillars with stud walls in between. It was reminiscent of british prefab housing put up by the government just after the war to house all the returning troops and their families. I was told that this was to make rebuilding easier and quicker during periods of extreme bad weather which, at the time, seemed to make sense.

Couple of reasons for this. First,wood is plentiful in America,and that saves transport costs. Also,they have to keep rebuilding due to earthquakes, tornadoes,wild fires etc

A town I lived in had some (supposedly) temporary housing put up after WWII. They are still there. The outsides were partly clad in corrugated metal which made them look cheap but the council painted them every now and then so they didn't look so bad. A friend of mine lived in one and it was very nice on the inside. The area locally was known as 'tin town'. :)

@@BoingBB prefabs

I heard that Luton's Tin Town was being replaced, and the residents aren't (or weren't) happy about it.

@@miaschu8175 That's the tin town I was talking about! I don't live there now so I wasn't aware of them being replaced. They have lasted far longer than they were meant to but last time I saw them they looked fine. I'm not surprised the residents complained. I doubt if any replacements would last as long. What about the residents who had purchased their homes?

It does, of course cost to park in the car park bit but his includes your bus (the ride part) fare into town.

Usually it's the more tourist centric cities that have Park & Ride, i.e., Cambridge, York, Durham. Where I live (Northampton) is nowhere near as popular so doesn't need one. Oxford Park & Ride is excellent.

There’s a parking fee and a bus ticket fee in Oxford. Where are these free buses?

I know, free healthcare is an absolute blessing here!

Also the switch’s on sockets and the insulator around the base of the prongs

And the wire on a uk plug goes flush to the wall so it is hard to pull out accidentally unlike US plugs.

I don't actually think uk plugs are much bigger in volume just wider/taller

I’m from The UK and have lived in The USA for several years. Public transport here is a complete joke. It’s interesting to learn why that is. Being The USA, of course it’s all about MONEY!

I'm in a rural area where buses are only really suitable for school transport, it gets much better as towns get bigger. All depends where you need to go.

In cities like Oxford and Cambridge you'd only need a car if you leave the city. Most people use public transport, cycle or walk.

Lost in the pond gets so many things wrong though and is very outdated on the UK.

Laurence does get a fair few things wrong about Britain in his videos. Tom Scott's video on 'UK plugs are the best in the world' is a good one though.

Public transport in the UK is routinely available , on time, and spotlessly clean. Even small villages and towns have hourly buses as the norm. It is very easy to live without your own car.

Chips covered in curry sauce is the food of the gods.

Chinese salt and chilli chips 👌

@@cotton9087 I let them cool down to room temperature, they crisp right up,,, lush!!!🖖😁

Lasagna and chips with beans omg nom nom nom

@@abigailslade3824 Bloody Hell!

Baked beans and sausage pizza! YAY!

Baked beans on toast, my go to meal when I lived on the cheap in London and Derry a good many years ago.

Or Roast Potatoes covered in butter or Chips covered in curry sauce.

😂 too right❤

Thats right, but that is not only in the UK . Its generally in any European country so.

sick time is unlimited in the UK but anything over 7 days (consecutively off), your employer can require you to get a doctors note, they might not always request it however.

A colleague took eight months off while he was being treated for cancer.

A shame the cash payout for unused annual leave was stopped. Made a good cash boost for the New Year (much lost to tax as jumped a bracket often) if not rolling over for a long overseas trip. Also stopped by some employers.

You can lose your job because of long term or repeating patterns of genuine sickness but it is not easy to do and can take a year or more, depending on the illness and time off from the illness.

And the fact that he keeps "outing" himself to us!

Well done bootfair but I'm trying to conduct a war on your namesake you , so now I will have to go somewhere else and comment about the yanks firearms laws ! Mum said to not drink too much and she sends her love and devotion to you XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

All the houses I have lived in in the UK have had concrete roof tiles. My parents house was built in1965 and around 2011 I replaced the wood fascias and soffits with uPVC, there was also some other minor repair work needed on the roof. The outbuildings - sheds, garage and workshop had roofs that needed replacing from ten to twenty years.

I love egg and chips with a couple of rounds of bread and proper butter 😋 only problem is it’s not very healthy

One of my very favourite meals is ham, eggs and chips with bread and butter. I'm happy to skip the beans though.

Tom Scot - :D ...... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i6uWg5SAsLHej4U.html

I am so pleased that you mentioned the safety features. As a child I was sufficiently curious to push a screwdriver into a two pin socket that we had in the house. It was the live contact that I hit as I found out to my immediate distress. Also, having studied electronics I understand the importance of the earth. I am building a house in the Philippines which, as a country, has adopted the American styles. Except in our house. It will have entirely UK plugs and sockets and my Filipino family entirely agree.

The US seems cheaper to us because their 'white goods' (cookers, freezers etc.), electronics, brand named clothes and computers (and their parts) are all a fair bit lower than in the UK. But general supermarket shopping is in frequently lower than the US.

Then again, the portions in the US are enough for four people. Sugary drinks are endless.

She didn't say where she got her shopping from, so could be tescos or lidl etc. Also don't forget Walmart owns asda so she could have been shopping there

Should that be 'Sarnie'?

I agree that food generally is cheaper and better than the USA. For our salaries though our standard of living was much higher in the USA

and I think Walmart now owns Asda

@@emma-janeadamson4099 They haven't owned Asda for ages

@WibblyWobblyTimeyWimey I have three kids - I have paid attention to that kind of thing since 2007! Thanks for the info.

@@emma-janeadamson4099 Asda returned to majority UK ownership in 2021 but Walmart still has around a 30% share.

Gravy....with tomato sauce? Really? That sounds so YUK! to me and I'm British!

Chips, grated cheese and gravy 🤤🤤🤤

Personally I think you should either have tomato sauce or gravy.

Walmart does not own Asda anymore, a British guy bought the company back from Walmart in 2019.

That is a lot cheaper than in Canada

In the UK we also have Aldi and Lidl stores which are pretty good on prices.

@@OblivionGate You are almost correct, Walmart still owns about 30% of Asda and it was two British brothers who brought it back under UK ownership.

Rural posties tend to have larger vans or Landrovers because they double up as an impromptu 'bus'. Former Highlands postie here.

@@Thurgosh_OG that must have been a daily occurrence. 😁